Word: colonos
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Pring-Wilson, now 29 years old, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria on April 12, 2003, in what he claimed was an act of self-defense. After being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in October 2004, a second trial was granted when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence about the victim’s violent past could be considered...
...Colorado native was sentenced to six to eight years in prison, but the verdict was thrown out when a higher court ruled that the violent history of Colono could be admitted as evidence, though it had previously been excluded...
...third time, citing several pieces of “compelling” evidence in the case—inconsistent statements Pring-Wilson gave the police, the presence of Colono’s blood on Pring-Wilson’s clothes, and the fact that the knife used to kill Colono was found in Pring-Wilson’s apartment...
...will honor the memory of Michael Colono by continuing to fight for justice on behalf of him, his family, and the Commonwealth,” the statement said...
...Colono had one daughter, Jade, who was born when...